@ -210,7 +210,6 @@ Abraham and, usually, his successor patriarchs Isaac and Jacob.[^12]
Table 1. Greek epitaphs from northern Nubia with the same formulary as the Brooklyn Museum stele, by provenance. (Names are presented without normalization.)
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The theological implications of this plural expansion of the "bosom"
(see further the commentary to line 8 of the edition below) remains to
be explained. After the seminal passage of Luke 16, the deceased was
@ -223,6 +222,8 @@ sitting in Abraham's lap.
**~~Figure 4. Illuminated copy of Gregory of Nazianzus, scene of Dives and Lazarus. Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France, grec 510, fol. 149r. Source: gallica.bnf.fr.~~**
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The publication of the Brooklyn Museum epitaph, besides encouraging the
continued commemoration of Timothea---an activity that the inclusion of
a month date in the text was meant to promote---,[^21] offers a small
